Access all your favorite blogs from myajc! Home > Channel Serf > Archives > 2006 > December > 05
Tuesday, December 5, 2006
Rachael Ray’s Empire Grows
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Is there no end to Rachael Ray’s mad power grab?
The multi-tasking TV chef has a hotter-than-hot new magazine and syndicated daytime program to go along with her gazillion top-rated cookbooks and Food Network shows. And come Thursday, the woman who makes Martha Stewart look like a half-comatose slacker will extend her empire into Outer Space. When the space shuttle Discovery takes off from the Kennedy Space Center, a Ray-prepared buffet of food will take off with it.
Apparently, Tang is so 1960s. Now, the space shuttle astronauts will have their choice of Ray’s Spicy Thai Chicken with Red Peppers & Basil, Swedish Meatballs or Vegetable Curry in a Hurry. (We know what you’re thinking: How much of a hurry can anyone be when they’re lightyears removed from home and such mundane tasks as having to take out the garbage or negotiate the traffic on Spaghetti Junction?)
Ray, alas, will remain back here on Earth. Who knows, maybe her mega-watt smile kept threatening to seep out of her spacesuit and melt the shuttle’s protective heat shields. But you gotta figure it’s only a matter of time before some enterprising talk show host figures out how to blast off and broadcast from space. Our money’s on Oprah getting there first. Maybe she’ll take Dr. Phil with her. And forget to bring him back …
